Kukui‘ula Development Company Hawai‘i President Dick Holtzman announced he is leaving the company at the end of this year. DMB Senior Vice President Brent Herrington, who has resided on Kaua‘i since January and been actively involved in the project for
Kukui‘ula Development Company Hawai‘i President Dick Holtzman announced he is leaving the company at the end of this year.
DMB Senior Vice President Brent Herrington, who has resided on Kaua‘i since January and been actively involved in the project for years, will assume management responsibility for Kukui‘ula and will be appointed its president, according to a news release from KDCH.
The DMB name comes from the first initials of each of its three founding partners — Drew Brown, Mark Sklar and Bennett Dorrance. The partners have cultivated a corporate culture based on mutual respect, integrity, fairness and a commitment to stand behind every business decision, the DMB Web site states.
The KDCH leadership team expects a seamless transition and no interruption of project development operations.
Holtzman, who joined KDCH in 2002, sites a historic period of entrepreneurial possibilities resulting from the dynamic change in the hotel, resort and development industries and is leaving to pursue related business opportunities.
The club and array of amenities currently under development by KDCH, including the main clubhouse and golf course, will open in late 2010. The visioning, planning and infrastructure phases of the project, led by Holtzman, are nearing completion and the project will begin to shift its focus to the operations stage, creating a natural transition for the leadership change.
Herrington has been a member of the DMB executive leadership team for 11 years and has served as general manager for two of the company’s flagship luxury communities, the DC Ranch and Silverleaf projects in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Prior to joining DMB, Herrington served as town manager for Celebration, Fla., a large new planned community developed by the Walt Disney Company.
He is an alumnus of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and past chair of the Community Association Research Institute in Washington, D.C.
Herrington and his wife Tanna reside in Po‘ipu.
